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Covers all academic and research disciplines in the sciences, social sciences and humanities in a collection of 8000+ journal titles. Citations and abstracts with some full text. Provided by the MUSC Library in partnership with PASCAL via EBSCO.

Covers nursing and allied health primarily as well as other medical disciplines. Citations and abstracts with some full text. Provided by the MUSC Library in partnership with PASCAL and Collegiate DISCUS, via EBSCO.

The HSRR database contains descriptions of research datasets, instruments/indices, and software applications that are frequently used in health services research and in the behavioral and social sciences. These research-oriented tools may be used to assess data variables and data collection methodologies.

MEDLINE contains references to articles in the health science and biomedical journals published world-wide. Topics include clinical and experimental medicine, basic sciences as related to medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacology, psychiatry, public health and veterinary medicine. Biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as related to medicine and health care are also included.

NAP publishes reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. The range of topics includes science, engineering, and health. The materials included exemplify the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. Titles available for free online.

OLDMEDLINE contains citations to articles from biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences during the period 1948 through 1965. Subject searching is available via key words and text phrases. This file is also available as a subset of PubMed.

Covers current social issues, providing information from all sides of specific issues. Includes a variety of material types among them court case overviews and primary source materials. Mostly full text. Provided by the MUSC Library in partnership with DISCUS, via Gale.

This database provides coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

PsycINFO is a database of psychological literature provided by the American Psychological Association. Updated weekly, this resource contains citations from journals, dissertations, and book chapters from the 1800’s to the present.

The PubMed service provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations and additional life sciences journals. The topic areas include medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Covers 1948-present